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Jaguars Happy Hour: Thursday, September 10 · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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Speaker 1: It is Thursday sept This is Jaguars Happy Hour and
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Speaker 1: now Bronson, Missouri's number one Celine Dion impersonator j Peace
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Speaker 1: shad Rick. I have never been to Bronson, Missouri, not yet,
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Speaker 1: maybe at some point down the line. Welcome in. It's
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Speaker 1: Jaguars Happy Hour on this Thursday of Game Week. J P.
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Speaker 1: Shaddick from the Home studio. Jeff Lockman at his home studio,
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Speaker 1: Tony Boselli coming up. Here's what's coming up on the program.
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Speaker 1: We'll have a preview of the Colts Jaguars matchup in
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Speaker 1: week one right around the corner. Big test for this
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Speaker 1: Jaguars defense. Certainly, how they played against the run last
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Speaker 1: season was not good enough. Far from it. They'll get
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Speaker 1: a test this week against the Colts team that ran
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Speaker 1: the ball very effectively last year. The debut of the
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Speaker 1: Jaguars offense is on the Doctor coming up. What will
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Speaker 1: this thing really look like? And we'll find out. Tony
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Speaker 1: Maselli joins us at four thirty today and then Doug
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Speaker 1: Groan joins us at five o'clock on The Doug Moron Show.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Lockerman, Good afternoon, It's Game week. Finally, Hey, JP excited?
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Speaker 1: Uh We've got a little football action tonight and then
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Speaker 1: the Jaguars home opener against the division to put it
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. So it's setting up to be a pretty
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Speaker 1: good week. Yeah, I would say some game tonight. Fantastic
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Speaker 1: matchup of quarterbacks tonight. The defending champions are at Arrowhead
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Speaker 1: this evening against the Texans. Well, you know we're gonna
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Speaker 1: pick that game a little bit later in the show.
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Speaker 1: I know you can't wait for that. Let's say, get
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Speaker 1: to the news of the day. The Jags back in
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Speaker 1: the practice field Thursday to get ready for the Colts.
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Speaker 1: They were one running back shorter, though divin A Zigbo
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Speaker 1: placed on the reserve injured list after that hamstring injury
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Speaker 1: that he misspracticed with yesterday, so he's gone. The Jaguars signed.
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna try this, logs Dary. That's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty good. A couple of tricky names. Are you
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Speaker 1: very surprising about a Zigbo? I mean, holy count hamstring
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Speaker 1: and practice just kind of odd there, and especially with
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Speaker 1: all the attention that the Jaguars running back position has
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Speaker 1: gotten this week and last week with the release of
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Speaker 1: Leonard four Nett and uh and then James Robinson. When
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Speaker 1: they put out the depth chart, He's right at the
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Speaker 1: top of it. And so the expectation was, Okay, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be a shared role between Thompson or Zigbo
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Speaker 1: and Robinson. And now Zigbo goes to I R which
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Speaker 1: means that he can come back later on in the
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Speaker 1: season and play for this football team. And then they
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Speaker 1: go and sign dari Obo. And the only reason that
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Speaker 1: I can pronounce that is that we played the Texans
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Speaker 1: when he was with the Texans, and it was one
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Speaker 1: of the most challenging names that that I had to
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Speaker 1: pronounce and the easy way, and I always do it.
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Speaker 1: I've got these U little flip card my cheat sheets
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Speaker 1: JP and that you've seen me carrying it around all
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Speaker 1: the time, and I make a ton of notes. And
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Speaker 1: if I have a guy's name that is incredibly hard
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Speaker 1: to say or to pronounce, I write the name out phonetically.
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Speaker 1: That way that even BASSELLI could read my chart and
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Speaker 1: get it right, even though he doesn't. You know what's funny, though,
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Speaker 1: I haven't spelled out phonetically as well, and I still okay,
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Speaker 1: that's the way it goes sometimes, but we'll I get
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Speaker 1: used to that name because he's one of three running
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Speaker 1: backs that at least currently are on the active roster
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Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars. The injury report just came out
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Speaker 1: as well. Josiah Scott, rookie cornerback, was added today. He
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Speaker 1: did practice full though, but he's listed with a shoulder
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Speaker 1: so but a full practice was not on the list yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Tyler Eiffort full today after a scheduled day off Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: James O'Shaughnessy practiced yesterday, but a scheduled day off today.
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Speaker 1: Tyler Avis, the rookie tight end from Georgia Tech with
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Speaker 1: a knee issue, is not practiced this week yet. And
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Speaker 1: then Adam gotsis added to the list of the scheduled
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Speaker 1: day off today. And then as we mentioned by a
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Speaker 1: zigbo is on injured reserve. So there's your at least
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Speaker 1: thursday injury report for the Jags. And if you look
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Speaker 1: at the Colts sideblogs, the whole left side of the
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Speaker 1: offensive line for the Colts is on the list today. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's a big deal with them. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think that's more of a precautionary thing,
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Speaker 1: you know that I don't want to say it's a
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Speaker 1: scheduled day off, because if that was the case, it
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Speaker 1: would it would end up saying that, like the Jaguars
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Speaker 1: have certain guys that have scheduled days off, but I
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Speaker 1: think those are more precautionary. I think the concern and
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Speaker 1: what is going to be interesting I know that we'll
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Speaker 1: have to talk to Doug Moron about this later on
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Speaker 1: during the Doug Moron Show, is that this year the
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Speaker 1: rules are a little bit different about how you can
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Speaker 1: bring guys up from the practice squad as opposed to
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Speaker 1: what they've been in the past. You know, this year
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Speaker 1: you had expanded practice squad roster in which you can
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Speaker 1: have even veterans and the and the number was expanded
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Speaker 1: to sixteen. Well, in past years, if you wanted, for example,
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Speaker 1: let's say Davis the tight end, let's say he can't
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Speaker 1: play this week, Well, what would you do, Well, you
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Speaker 1: would release somebody off of your fifty three to be
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Speaker 1: able to elevate. Maybe, uh Ellison, did I say that right?
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Speaker 1: Ellison Elson? The other yeah, the young tight end that
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Speaker 1: that practice squad, yes, from North Dakota State. Well, in
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Speaker 1: years past they would have to let somebody go to
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Speaker 1: to be able to elevate Ellison off the practice squad
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Speaker 1: to be able to play on game day. The rules
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Speaker 1: are different this year, and uh and I was talking
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Speaker 1: to Doug run a little bit about that earlier today,
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Speaker 1: and we'll go into greater detail with it with him
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Speaker 1: because he can explain, I think a whole lot better
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Speaker 1: than me. But now you don't have to release somebody
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Speaker 1: to elevate somebody from the practice squad, which is a
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Speaker 1: big difference than in years past. So essentially what the
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Speaker 1: practice squad is now, it's really just an expanded roster.
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Speaker 1: And I think the only difference is is that if
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Speaker 1: a player is elevated from the practice squad to be
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Speaker 1: active on game day, then he ends up getting a
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Speaker 1: minimum salary one seventeenth paycheck instead of a practice squad salary.
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Speaker 1: So it gives the team's great flexibility. And obviously the
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Speaker 1: whole reason that they put this in was in the
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Speaker 1: case of a huge outbreak of COVID nine team with
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Speaker 1: a football team, they wanted to allow teams to be
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Speaker 1: able to feel the teams. Hey, look, if you've got
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Speaker 1: fifteen guys or sixteen guys, hey just elevate the whole
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Speaker 1: practice squad and let's go. Because with contact tracing. You
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Speaker 1: never know what might end up happening. If all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, one guy is sick and he was around
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Speaker 1: twelve other guys or fifteen other guys, you may end
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Speaker 1: up having to utilize all of that practice squad. So,
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Speaker 1: even though the rules were designed for COVID nineteen JP,
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Speaker 1: I think the rules provide a lot of flexibility for
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Speaker 1: teams this year to be able to utilize that practice
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Speaker 1: squad in a much different fashion than what they have
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Speaker 1: done in past year. And you know, considering that there
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Speaker 1: was no preseason games this year, it kind of gives
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Speaker 1: some guys that may not have had a chance to
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Speaker 1: to really show a lot under the lights, which they
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Speaker 1: might not still, but at least they're still involved in
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Speaker 1: an NFL team with an expanded opportunity on the on
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Speaker 1: the practice. What excited to hear what Doug Moron says
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Speaker 1: about that? Um, let's hear from Doug Moron now. In fact,
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Speaker 1: he was asked this week, with the opener looming on
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Speaker 1: the horizon here a few days away, is it exciting
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Speaker 1: or daunting? It's definitely exciting, you know, I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: you see a bunch of guys that have worked you know,
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Speaker 1: extremely hard to see guys that are pulling together. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not you know, obviously you can't predict,
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Speaker 1: you know, with what's gonna occur. But um, you know
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Speaker 1: the focus, Um, you know all the things that you're
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Speaker 1: looking for that you're kind checking off the box, things
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Speaker 1: that may cause you anxiety. You know, we've worked extremely
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Speaker 1: hard about you know, discipline. We've worked extremely hard on penalty's.
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Speaker 1: We've worked extremely hard and you know, not turning the
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Speaker 1: ball over and creating turnover. So you know, we we
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Speaker 1: put a lot of time in this and and it's
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Speaker 1: been reflective in the practice now. Um, you know when
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Speaker 1: you go out there and play, you know, you expect
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Speaker 1: that to carry over, but that doesn't always happen. Head
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Speaker 1: coach Dumarone earlier this week. Yeah, I mean excited. That's
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Speaker 1: the way he has to be, right, I mean, he's
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Speaker 1: the head coach of the team. This is a group
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Speaker 1: that he believes in. It is a younger excuse younger,
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Speaker 1: but they are veteran in certain key areas, especially the
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Speaker 1: offensive line. So he's excited for what this team can
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Speaker 1: bring to the table this year. Logs well first and foremost,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of people say, how can you be
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Speaker 1: excited because you're young and this team is tanking. Look,
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Speaker 1: they put together a roster that they think that they
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Speaker 1: can in with, but then also build to the future with.
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Speaker 1: Now is that going to happen or not? I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's debatable, you know, and you can argue different ways,
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Speaker 1: and eventually the win and lost record is gonna end
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Speaker 1: up being the truthth indicator obviously of was it the
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Speaker 1: right thing to do and is it the right thing
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Speaker 1: to do? But there's a lot of reason for excitement
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Speaker 1: this week jp whether you have a young football team
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Speaker 1: or whether you have an older football team right now.
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Speaker 1: First off, it's kickoff weekend, and kickoff weekend in the
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Speaker 1: NFL is incredible, especially when the nation is still in
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Speaker 1: the midst of a global pandemic and many people didn't
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Speaker 1: even expect the NFL to be able to pull this off,
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Speaker 1: So it's exciting from that aspect. Also, it is the
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Speaker 1: home opener, and the home openers, even though you're not
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Speaker 1: going to have plus strong, it still means something. And
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Speaker 1: also it's a divisional opponent, you know, so even though
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Speaker 1: you're going against teams to where the whole secrecy thing
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Speaker 1: and and to where you know, nobody knows what they
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Speaker 1: did in the preseason. You don't get to see their players,
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Speaker 1: and uh and the team's as we know JP they
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Speaker 1: went to their utmost to protect all of their little
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Speaker 1: trade secrets because camps were closed this year and they
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Speaker 1: weren't seen by other teams. Even though all of that happened,
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Speaker 1: there's there's still some others. But there's so much excitement.
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Speaker 1: I think when the season gets started. I don't care
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Speaker 1: if you're you're the favorite, the Kansas City Chiefs playing tonight,
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Speaker 1: or you're the Jacksonville jagut Wars which many people have
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Speaker 1: thirty two and the power polls. There's always excitement to
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Speaker 1: the newness of the season. And right now at zero
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Speaker 1: and zero, everybody zero and zero, and that that's why
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Speaker 1: they play the games. We're gonna find out this weekend
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Speaker 1: where this Jaguars football team is at. And I'll I
10:43
Speaker 1: will say this too, not only this week, but the
10:45
Speaker 1: next week the Titans on the road in Nashville. I mean,
10:48
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a really good idea of how the
10:51
Speaker 1: Jaguars are going to fare in the a s C
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Speaker 1: South really quick this season. The first two weeks of
10:56
Speaker 1: the year here they come. Well and let me kind
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Speaker 1: of to that, because you know, during this past Saturday,
11:04
Speaker 1: when the general manager Dave called well talked, he alluded
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Speaker 1: to that and said, hey, look, we're gonna know right away.
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Speaker 1: We've got a couple of tough games, and obviously some
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Speaker 1: people are picking the Colts and the Texans to be favorites, etcetera, etcetera.
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Speaker 1: And you know, look, you don't play the first two
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Speaker 1: weeks to find out where you're at, where you're at.
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Speaker 1: You know, you play to win and then you figure
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Speaker 1: out where you're at at the end of the season.
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Speaker 1: That's what mattered. It doesn't matter where you are in
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Speaker 1: week two, because as a football team, you can still
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Speaker 1: get better and from week one, week too, all the
11:39
Speaker 1: way until your week sixteen, you know. And I think
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Speaker 1: that's what Bill Belichick has had such great success in
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Speaker 1: New England is that he always, even though he had
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Gronkowski, and that he always preached improvement
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Speaker 1: throughout the season, and his team's always improved throughout the
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Speaker 1: regular season. So I'm a little i want to say shocked,
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Speaker 1: but I'm a little surprised at at you know, the
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Speaker 1: comments that you know, after two weeks, we're gonna know
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Speaker 1: where we are. Well again, I want to say that, Look,
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Speaker 1: after two weeks, it doesn't matter where you are, it's
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Speaker 1: after sixteen weeks, you know, the whole goal is to
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Speaker 1: get to the playoffs. When the vision get to the
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Speaker 1: playoffs and get in the tournament race. And so with
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Speaker 1: the young football team, I think the most important thing
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Speaker 1: is is that you've got to get better every week
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Speaker 1: so that when the end of the season rolls around,
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Speaker 1: you feel good about where you are and where you
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Speaker 1: can be. All right, let's come back in a moment,
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Speaker 1: they have in store this week against the Colts offense
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Speaker 1: I think it's even one of their strengths. They've added
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Speaker 1: some great weapons on the outside too and obviously Philip.
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Speaker 1: But um, I think that's the strength of their ball club. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna have our work cutout for us.
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Speaker 1: Um they're very good players. Um I think we have
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Speaker 1: some good matchups that that, uh we're going to try
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Speaker 1: to get to in different situations and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: But um, it is definitely their strength and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to challenge our guys up. Fund it's it's it's
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Speaker 1: been a week where we have challenged the heck out
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Speaker 1: of our front and uh, you know, they're one of
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Speaker 1: the best funds in the league and we're fortunate up
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Speaker 1: that we get to seem twice a year. Todd Wash
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Speaker 1: talking about the Colts offensive blind Welcome back Jaguar is
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Speaker 1: a happy hour. J P. Shattrick from the home studio.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Lagman from his home studio. And we're about fifteen
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Speaker 1: minutes or less away from Tony Boselli joining us at
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Speaker 1: four thirty. So here we go right in the fire
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Speaker 1: against one of the top offensive linds in football. And
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Speaker 1: we mentioned earlier that three of the guys are are
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Speaker 1: on the injury report, but it just doesn't seem like
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Speaker 1: they have missed the opener, but who knows. Let's this
17:42
Speaker 1: is a group that, look, they've thrown so much money
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Speaker 1: at this position, at at this group across the front
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of years to really solidify things
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Speaker 1: their draft equity and some free agent money and new contracts.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look at the numbers. Costanzo is on a
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Speaker 1: two year deal thirty three billion. There's quinnin Nelson still
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Speaker 1: in his rookie deal, all guaranteed twenty three point eight.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Kelly just got paid fifty million total contract, Lewinsky
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Speaker 1: the right guard, three year, sixteen million, Brandon Smith a
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Speaker 1: second year player, a second round pick, still at his
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Speaker 1: rookie deal, but they feel like he's a really solid
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Speaker 1: player on the right side too. So it's a successful group.
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Speaker 1: It's a consistent group. They didn't miss a snap last
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Speaker 1: year across the front, and they're all back and most
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Speaker 1: of these guys are paid. So that's pretty good group somewhere.
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Speaker 1: Why in the hell did you finally decide to address
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Speaker 1: the offensive line with me gone? Right? He took a
18:45
Speaker 1: beating while he was with Indianapolis, and Ryan Grigson, the
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Speaker 1: general manager, essentially got fired for it, and rightly so.
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Speaker 1: But I think What is is interesting is that the
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Speaker 1: things you mentioned about the Colds, that you know, they
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Speaker 1: played all sixteen games last year and they were think
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Speaker 1: the only offensive line that we're all able to do
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Speaker 1: that and play every play. But the Jaguars are also
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Speaker 1: returning all five starters from the offensive line from a
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Speaker 1: year ago. This, I don't know how many times has
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Speaker 1: has ever happened in league history. Where do you have
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Speaker 1: an opening game on kickoff weekend where both teams return
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Speaker 1: all five starters from the year before. It's very rare,
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Speaker 1: and obviously it's something that because that is the case,
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Speaker 1: that both teams have an expectation out of that offensive
19:30
Speaker 1: line to be something that you can count on, and
19:33
Speaker 1: the Colts have proven that they can be counted on
19:36
Speaker 1: as an offensive line. That Jaguars are trying to reach
19:40
Speaker 1: that level of success, and so I think it's gonna
19:43
Speaker 1: be an interesting watch and it obviously makes Philip Rivers
19:47
Speaker 1: very comfortable. When you're talking about a seventeenth year quarterback
19:51
Speaker 1: who is a little long in tooth and maybe the
19:53
Speaker 1: not the most fleet of foot. He doesn't have great
19:57
Speaker 1: escapability outside of the pocket, but he can maneuver in
20:00
Speaker 1: a pocket, and I'm sure it was one of the
20:02
Speaker 1: big reasons why Philip Rivers decided to go to Indianapolis.
20:05
Speaker 1: I mean, look, talk about comfort level, you know, leaving
20:09
Speaker 1: San Diego slash l A. And I'm surprised I got
20:12
Speaker 1: both of those cities mentioned with the Chargers, which I'm
20:15
Speaker 1: proud of myself for that. JP by the way, and
20:18
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, he's got some familiarity with
20:20
Speaker 1: Frank Reich and Sara Janni the offensive coordinator, and they
20:24
Speaker 1: have a great offensive line. I mean, does it get
20:27
Speaker 1: any better than that for Philip Rivers to continue his career?
20:31
Speaker 1: And I mean, I think it's a pretty great set
20:34
Speaker 1: up for a guy like him. Now, before we went
20:36
Speaker 1: to the break, he referred to him as a future
20:38
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. That's debatable. I think I think it's
20:42
Speaker 1: a great argument, but I wouldn't put him in that
20:44
Speaker 1: category yet. I don't think there's much of a debate. Logs,
20:49
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with it. He's every statistical category. I
20:54
Speaker 1: know he hasn't won one, but well, I know, I
20:58
Speaker 1: I guess you. But you know what when you when
21:00
Speaker 1: you play quarterback and you coach, what do you judged
21:04
Speaker 1: on wins? Winning the big one, the Big One. Yeah,
21:10
Speaker 1: wins in in the Big One, and and he hasn't
21:12
Speaker 1: he hasn't done that. So is it enough to get
21:15
Speaker 1: him into Hall of Fame? Probably so, But I don't
21:19
Speaker 1: think he's a He's not going in on roller skates now,
21:22
Speaker 1: so potential Hall of Famer is a better way to
21:26
Speaker 1: refer to him. I know it's a it's a one
21:29
Speaker 1: year deal for him, so this might be his swan
21:33
Speaker 1: song this season. It does help, though, when you have
21:35
Speaker 1: a running attack like the Colts had. We saw, of
21:38
Speaker 1: course this first hand last year. I think it was
21:40
Speaker 1: Week eleven last season when the Colts ran rough shot
21:44
Speaker 1: over the Jaguars. Marlon Mack had a big hand that
21:48
Speaker 1: day for the Jags. And this is a it's a
21:51
Speaker 1: running group, man, I mean, and this is what they
21:54
Speaker 1: really I think you're gonna be built to do is
21:57
Speaker 1: hand the ball off and then Philip can do his
21:59
Speaker 1: damnit off the run. Yeah. Look, Marlon Mack is a
22:03
Speaker 1: really good running back. I don't think he's a very
22:06
Speaker 1: good back out of the backfield as a receiver. I
22:09
Speaker 1: think sometimes he has the Roberto Duran syndrome hands of stone,
22:14
Speaker 1: and that's why they have him Hines, who is more
22:18
Speaker 1: of a threat out of the backfield, and he's gotten
22:20
Speaker 1: great speed. And then all of a sudden they drafted
22:22
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor in the second round. The Colts had quite
22:25
Speaker 1: a few second round picks, and we're able to pick
22:27
Speaker 1: up a wide receiver and running back, and running back
22:30
Speaker 1: is Jonathan Taylor, and he's a good one from Wisconsin,
22:33
Speaker 1: and the expectations for him are very high. So you
22:37
Speaker 1: have really a really strong one to punch, and maybe
22:40
Speaker 1: even a three punch if you're counting the him Hines
22:43
Speaker 1: in that category. So the Coults are definitely gonna try
22:47
Speaker 1: to lean on what has been their bread and butter,
22:50
Speaker 1: particularly in an opener when you're talking about having a
22:53
Speaker 1: new quarterback. So the Jaguars better be prepared. And watched
22:58
Speaker 1: a little bit of film this week of the my
23:00
Speaker 1: match up that you were referring to, which was in
23:01
Speaker 1: Indianapolis last year, and it wasn't very good. JP. It
23:06
Speaker 1: wasn't very good by the Jaguars defensively at all. They
23:10
Speaker 1: weren't getting off of blocks, they were out of position.
23:14
Speaker 1: You didn't see a wholehearted commitment to stop in the run.
23:18
Speaker 1: When I say a whole hearted commitment. The numbers were there,
23:21
Speaker 1: in other words, the defensive calls, you fortified the front
23:24
Speaker 1: to stop the run, but you just didn't see the
23:27
Speaker 1: emphasis in the sense of urgency by the players in
23:32
Speaker 1: that game, and it turned out to be a game
23:34
Speaker 1: that wasn't pretty. And the Jaguars, obviously, the next time
23:37
Speaker 1: around in Jacksonville last year, had a whole lot better
23:40
Speaker 1: performance than they did at Indianapolis and were able to
23:43
Speaker 1: hold the Indianapolis Colts running game in check. If the
23:46
Speaker 1: Jaguars don't hold the Colts running game in check, they
23:50
Speaker 1: have no chance of beating the Colts at home this Sunday.
23:57
Speaker 1: It's been an emphasis all off season, but we really
23:59
Speaker 1: don't know until you go out and play what the
24:02
Speaker 1: defense is really going to look like against the run.
24:05
Speaker 1: Can they you know, they they've done all they can.
24:07
Speaker 1: They've added the middle linebacker free agency, they added a
24:10
Speaker 1: couple of other free agents who have opted out, are
24:13
Speaker 1: retired for different reasons, and now it's the guys that
24:17
Speaker 1: are here are gonna have to step up and do it.
24:19
Speaker 1: And they added Journey in at the in the middle
24:21
Speaker 1: of training camp as well. But that that middle of
24:23
Speaker 1: that defensive line and the middle linebacker spout with Miles
24:26
Speaker 1: Jack on the outside roaming around to make some plays.
24:30
Speaker 1: That's where it's got to start guys in the right spot,
24:33
Speaker 1: and then you have to have the want to after that.
24:35
Speaker 1: But a lot of these guys are new here. They
24:36
Speaker 1: didn't see that game last year and Week eleven, no,
24:41
Speaker 1: And I don't know how much motivation that you get
24:44
Speaker 1: out of what happened last year. But but I'm sure
24:46
Speaker 1: a guy like Avery Jones or Miles Jack, and we're
24:50
Speaker 1: talking about defensive captains that that this is in the
24:53
Speaker 1: back of their mind because they went through that and
24:57
Speaker 1: they know how important it is to stop the run
24:59
Speaker 1: a it's the cults. But knowing that it's important and
25:03
Speaker 1: then having the ability to stop it are two totally
25:06
Speaker 1: different things. It's a it's a tremendous challenge for any
25:10
Speaker 1: football team to stop the running game of the Indianapolis
25:14
Speaker 1: Colt And I think it's as a huge challenge for
25:18
Speaker 1: a Jaguars football team that has a lot of components
25:22
Speaker 1: that are gone and then a lot of components that
25:25
Speaker 1: were brought in to fortify areas that were maybe a
25:28
Speaker 1: week spot last year. Some of those guys are gone
25:31
Speaker 1: to now you know, so can they do it? And
25:35
Speaker 1: I think that's a big question. And obviously there's a
25:39
Speaker 1: lot of skepticism that is out there about the Jaguars
25:42
Speaker 1: ability to improve on defense with some of the lack
25:46
Speaker 1: of additions that they had and subtractions that they had
25:49
Speaker 1: from last year. I mean, because and I understand it.
25:52
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at it from a name standpoint, JP,
25:56
Speaker 1: the list is pretty long. You're talking about Klais Campbell,
26:00
Speaker 1: Marcel Darius uh A, J Boy, Jalen Ramsey, and I
26:05
Speaker 1: know that those guys aren't necessarily run stoppers. And then
26:09
Speaker 1: Ronnie Harrison. I mean, so there's a lot of new
26:12
Speaker 1: faces with this defense and some of the same faces,
26:16
Speaker 1: and can they do it? We're gonna find out on Sunday.
26:21
Speaker 1: Two new faces on defense first making now their debut
26:25
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, the two first round picks
26:28
Speaker 1: c J. Henderson and Cal and Chase, and a lot
26:30
Speaker 1: of folks I know are excited about what they could
26:33
Speaker 1: offer on defense this year. What have you seen in
26:36
Speaker 1: camp from the two first rounders? What do you expect
26:39
Speaker 1: on Sunday? I know there are two different type of
26:41
Speaker 1: roles that feels like, I think Calevan Chase On is
26:46
Speaker 1: ready to be uh. When I say an impact player
26:50
Speaker 1: in that it won't appear that he's a rookie. I
26:54
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have successful pass rush. I think he's
26:56
Speaker 1: gonna be able to put pressure on the quarterback from
26:59
Speaker 1: week one. He's got a real nice quickness to him,
27:03
Speaker 1: He's got some power to him, He's got some advanced
27:06
Speaker 1: hands to where he is I think a step ahead
27:09
Speaker 1: of where Josh Allen was last year as far as
27:12
Speaker 1: knowing how to have moves as a pass rusher, Whereas
27:14
Speaker 1: Josh Allen last year was just kind of think more
27:17
Speaker 1: more being an athlete than anything else. So I think
27:21
Speaker 1: there's a real there's a good role that Caleb and
27:24
Speaker 1: Ches is gonna be able to fill. He's gonna back
27:26
Speaker 1: up Josh on regular personnel when they get the sub
27:28
Speaker 1: which is Nickel or their dieing packages, They're both gonna
27:31
Speaker 1: be on the field and both going to be the
27:33
Speaker 1: edge rushers. Uh. C J Henderson, I think he's gonna
27:37
Speaker 1: have He's gonna get tested, and I think it's gonna
27:39
Speaker 1: be very interesting to see what light that they view
27:43
Speaker 1: him in. Will he follow a t Y Hilton? Will
27:47
Speaker 1: he match up with other number one wide receivers. You know,
27:50
Speaker 1: when you draft a guy number one overall and then
27:53
Speaker 1: in the top ten at that corner position, I think
27:56
Speaker 1: most people would expect that that eventually maybe an right away,
28:01
Speaker 1: but at some point you've got to take him and
28:03
Speaker 1: put him on somebody else's best guy. And if you
28:06
Speaker 1: look at the Jaguars roster and that corner position, that's
28:10
Speaker 1: not gonna be Trey Herndon. That that's just that's just
28:13
Speaker 1: not him. I think he's a good football player, but
28:16
Speaker 1: to be able to match up with the true number one,
28:18
Speaker 1: that's a that's a totally different level of of of ability.
28:22
Speaker 1: And I think CJ has got that ability, But is
28:24
Speaker 1: he ready for it? You know, Look, that's why you
28:27
Speaker 1: dropped him in the first round. Time to put him
28:29
Speaker 1: on a t Y Hilton then find out. But I'm
28:32
Speaker 1: excited about him watching him because I think he's got
28:35
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28:37
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28:41
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28:44
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28:47
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28:49
Speaker 1: success because at some point things are gonna go bad.
28:52
Speaker 1: And if things go bad and you give up a
28:55
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28:57
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29:01
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29:02
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Speaker 1: You know, we're very optimistic going to the season. We
33:09
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33:11
Speaker 1: youth plan but really I think the biggest uh reason
33:15
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33:17
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33:20
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33:23
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33:25
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Speaker 1: Jeff Lockerman, and Tony Vasselli joins us. Now, Tony, good afternoon.
33:55
Speaker 1: What's happening. What's up guys? You know, just getting ready
34:00
Speaker 1: for the opener. That's really about it. We've got a
34:02
Speaker 1: lot going on. It's uh, it's right around the corner.
34:05
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's here tonight is the first game?
34:07
Speaker 1: Is it just new or does it not feel like
34:11
Speaker 1: kick Off Weekend? I mean, it's just I think it's
34:15
Speaker 1: because like historically we've all been a part of this
34:18
Speaker 1: where you're like getting ready for the regular season, Like
34:20
Speaker 1: you have the preseason games, and you like get tired
34:22
Speaker 1: of pre Like you're so excited for the first preseason games, like, hey,
34:25
Speaker 1: we're gonna play someone else is in the stadium, YadA, yadi, YadA,
34:28
Speaker 1: and then by like the third preseason game, like I
34:31
Speaker 1: cannot wait for the regular season, We're so tired of this.
34:33
Speaker 1: And then you're all amped up for opening Day. Well,
34:36
Speaker 1: we've cut out such a big portion of it, and
34:39
Speaker 1: we haven't been able to be around the team, Jeff,
34:41
Speaker 1: like we usually are like talking to people, hanging out,
34:44
Speaker 1: like get really amped up. And then I was like
34:47
Speaker 1: thinking about today. I'm like, we play a game on Sunday,
34:50
Speaker 1: Like I I'm looking looking through the game release and
34:52
Speaker 1: and then I'm thinking, Okay, what tape am I gonna
34:54
Speaker 1: go watch? Well, there's no tape to watch outside of
34:56
Speaker 1: last year's game, I guess. And they got a whole
34:58
Speaker 1: new offense because it feel up rivers and everything else,
35:01
Speaker 1: and it's, uh, it's it's it's wacky. I think once
35:04
Speaker 1: we get into the regular season, um, then we'll it'll
35:08
Speaker 1: feel a bit a little bit more normal. I don't
35:12
Speaker 1: know if if we're ever even gonna feel even close
35:16
Speaker 1: to normal this year. I mean you you like you're
35:18
Speaker 1: saying you typically have a build up, and I think
35:20
Speaker 1: what may even be stranger is that, you know, we
35:23
Speaker 1: go to the stadium on game day this Sunday and
35:27
Speaker 1: you're talking about maybe fifteen thousand people, and uh I
35:32
Speaker 1: mean talk about different. I mean fifteen thousand people that
35:35
Speaker 1: that's something that you would get maybe for a scrimmage
35:39
Speaker 1: in preseason. And uh so it's gonna be vastly different.
35:44
Speaker 1: And you wonder as a player. You know, look, coaches
35:49
Speaker 1: can say all they want, Tony that, Okay, you gotta
35:53
Speaker 1: have guys that are pros and they're paid to play
35:56
Speaker 1: the game and they got to prepare and they gotta
35:58
Speaker 1: come ready to play. But to re it is Look
36:01
Speaker 1: when I played at Virginia to use an example here,
36:04
Speaker 1: and we will go down to play Clemson. It was incredible.
36:09
Speaker 1: I mean, great atmosphere. You know, the team coming down
36:12
Speaker 1: the hill, touching the rock and getting ready to play
36:14
Speaker 1: football game. And they hammered us all the time pretty much,
36:18
Speaker 1: and we got beat up, but it was fun. I
36:21
Speaker 1: mean it was eighty thousand strong in Death Valley and
36:26
Speaker 1: then we travel maybe the Duke and there would be
36:31
Speaker 1: a couple of people over in this section, a couple
36:34
Speaker 1: of people over in that section, and uh, maybe twelve
36:39
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand people looking. I know you didn't have that
36:42
Speaker 1: in the in the in the pack twelve or ten
36:44
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, Tony, But I mean it's got
36:47
Speaker 1: to be like playing at Duke back in the day.
36:49
Speaker 1: And and yeah, I mean, yeah, you're a pro, but man,
36:53
Speaker 1: having sixty thousand plus strong cheering and get you fired
36:57
Speaker 1: up that I mean to not have that, that's that's
37:01
Speaker 1: gonna be different. Yeah, I think it would be really different.
37:05
Speaker 1: And as a player, Jeff, I think once you get
37:07
Speaker 1: on the field and the game's going, it's competitive. I
37:09
Speaker 1: don't think like the level of play will be uh
37:13
Speaker 1: noticeably different. I mean, I can't remember remember the last
37:15
Speaker 1: game we played in uh Basterdom in nineties six and
37:19
Speaker 1: there was one about seven thousand people in that place.
37:21
Speaker 1: We played the Oilers and you can literally hear each
37:24
Speaker 1: other coming off the sideline. You could hear, but once
37:29
Speaker 1: you got in the game, it felt like a real game. Now,
37:30
Speaker 1: maybe it's because we were playing for the playoffs and
37:32
Speaker 1: we were like getting better at the end of the season.
37:34
Speaker 1: And we're really trying to shoot for something. But I
37:36
Speaker 1: don't remember thinking, um, I wasn't playing hard. But what
37:40
Speaker 1: I think backup is the motion that was surrounding the
37:43
Speaker 1: game wasn't the same that gave you that I want
37:46
Speaker 1: to say gave me individually extra juice, but to your point,
37:49
Speaker 1: made it a more fun environment. Like it was just
37:52
Speaker 1: exciting because you like that you could sense the you know,
37:55
Speaker 1: the feelings of the fans and everything else. So I
37:57
Speaker 1: think that will be missing. I can't you can't replace it.
38:00
Speaker 1: Remember the earlier this week or maybe it was over
38:02
Speaker 1: the weekend, I was watching UM football college football. It
38:07
Speaker 1: was b y U maybe and I'm sitting there and
38:10
Speaker 1: there's no one in the stands, and I felt like
38:13
Speaker 1: I was watching the scrimmage because you could hear the whistles,
38:15
Speaker 1: you could hear players, you could hear every aspect of
38:18
Speaker 1: going back and forth. Like I felt like I could
38:20
Speaker 1: hear the coaches screaming, and it was missing something not
38:23
Speaker 1: I watched it. It was great. It was fun to
38:25
Speaker 1: watch football UM. But I think it will be different.
38:28
Speaker 1: And then I look at it for Jeff, you and
38:30
Speaker 1: I in our experience on game day, Uh, like we
38:34
Speaker 1: won't even see JP, probably because we're not gonna go
38:36
Speaker 1: down the studio. We're gonna spend the whole time up
38:38
Speaker 1: in the booth. We're not gonna go down on the
38:40
Speaker 1: field and talk to the coaches and get those nuggets
38:42
Speaker 1: that you kind of I feel. You get a sense
38:44
Speaker 1: of like how everyone's feeling about the game, and you
38:47
Speaker 1: know who's up, who's down. You know what happened at
38:50
Speaker 1: the end of the practice, the end of the week
38:52
Speaker 1: and practice. You know all those things we're missing. And
38:55
Speaker 1: for me, like I sow it forward to the game,
38:57
Speaker 1: It'll be fun to call the game, um, but I'll
39:00
Speaker 1: miss that. It won't be as fun because of those experiences.
39:04
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a whole different deal. Um. But
39:07
Speaker 1: I still think you have millions and millions of people
39:11
Speaker 1: watching it, and I think the nation cannot wait to
39:13
Speaker 1: see uh football start tonight kick it off with the
39:16
Speaker 1: Chiefs in the Texas. Hey, JP, just thought here, JP,
39:21
Speaker 1: real quick, the with this game coming up, and obviously
39:25
Speaker 1: it's the Colts Jaguars. Philip Rivers has been training for
39:29
Speaker 1: a game like this for the last couple of years
39:31
Speaker 1: or the last year in l A, right, I mean,
39:34
Speaker 1: how many fans that they have in l A that
39:37
Speaker 1: were that were Chargers fans, so advantaged Philip Rivers in
39:42
Speaker 1: this instance. Interesting thought there for sure. Let's go back
39:49
Speaker 1: to Jake Gruden at the top of the segment here,
39:52
Speaker 1: you know he was he was talking about the offensive line.
39:56
Speaker 1: And obviously we've known all offseason, Tony, that they've they've
40:00
Speaker 1: put a lot of eggs in this basket. This year.
40:02
Speaker 1: They brought everybody back. Um, the entire starting line is
40:06
Speaker 1: back from the end of last season. And you can
40:09
Speaker 1: argue this obviously for most offenses anybody, but this for
40:12
Speaker 1: the Jaguars offense is where this season will be made
40:16
Speaker 1: or broken. If if they play well, then Gardner has
40:19
Speaker 1: time to deal it out to all the playmakers. If
40:21
Speaker 1: they don't, they can't run the ball for some reason,
40:24
Speaker 1: then Gardner is gonna have to run around like a
40:26
Speaker 1: Chase Chicken like he was a lot last year. So
40:29
Speaker 1: it starts up front, Tony. And where is your belief
40:33
Speaker 1: in this offensive line a few days out? Well, I'll say,
40:36
Speaker 1: you know after after Gardner Minshoe, the offensive line is
40:40
Speaker 1: the most important position group on this entire team, without
40:44
Speaker 1: hands down. Um. I found it interesting listening to Jay Gruden.
40:48
Speaker 1: He sounded like me. I've been like the one proponent
40:51
Speaker 1: of this offensive line and especially last year, and I
40:54
Speaker 1: got just skewered for it because they didn't perform. And
40:57
Speaker 1: I was actually um at we said, and I said
41:00
Speaker 1: in a little thing I wrote up today, Brochure is like, like, individually,
41:04
Speaker 1: I love these guys, Like individually, they're good players, and
41:08
Speaker 1: I think they would start on other teams. But for
41:10
Speaker 1: whatever reason, as a group, they've been wildly and consistent
41:14
Speaker 1: and that has to change this year. They really knew
41:17
Speaker 1: have to be the strength and Um and Jay Gruen's right.
41:20
Speaker 1: If you have confidence in your offensive line and then
41:22
Speaker 1: they perform up to their expectations that everyone has, it
41:25
Speaker 1: makes the entire team better because it makes everything easier.
41:29
Speaker 1: It makes plain quarterback easier because you can run the
41:32
Speaker 1: ball and you have time back there. It makes it
41:34
Speaker 1: easier to get open outside because they're worried about the run.
41:38
Speaker 1: It makes it easier to run the ball if you're
41:40
Speaker 1: young back and Robinson as a rookie, I'm just gonna
41:43
Speaker 1: get a lot of carries. So um, I agree with them. Um,
41:47
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit more pessimistic, and it's hard for
41:49
Speaker 1: me to be pessimistic about the offensive line, because I
41:51
Speaker 1: do love these guys, But after going all in on
41:53
Speaker 1: them last year and and taking a lot of heat
41:55
Speaker 1: for it, I still believe in them. I believe them
41:58
Speaker 1: as individuals, and I think they're well coached. I think
42:00
Speaker 1: words War offic is a very good coach. I just
42:01
Speaker 1: got to see it happened on the field, and they're
42:03
Speaker 1: gonna have to show that their consistent group that can
42:05
Speaker 1: really carry this offense. JP the to go back to
42:11
Speaker 1: your original comment about the offensive line, and it stemmed
42:14
Speaker 1: from a question to the offensive coordinator, Jay Gruden, and
42:17
Speaker 1: he was asked about the offense and his entire response
42:21
Speaker 1: was essentially about the offensive line, and I didn't hear him,
42:25
Speaker 1: and he didn't go in any way, shape or form
42:28
Speaker 1: towards his quarterback, which I kind of find found that interesting,
42:32
Speaker 1: And that when you're asked a question about your offense,
42:34
Speaker 1: then your answer is about the offensive line. I mean,
42:37
Speaker 1: it doesn't usually you're one of somewhere in there you're
42:39
Speaker 1: gonna talk about your quarterback. But he didn't. I think
42:42
Speaker 1: it's really intriguing how this offense as a whole is
42:46
Speaker 1: going to perform, not just the offensive line, but a
42:50
Speaker 1: rookie running back, a group of wide receivers that we
42:53
Speaker 1: all kind of view as a very talented position, a
42:57
Speaker 1: second year quarterback that we assume him is gonna take
43:01
Speaker 1: the next step, but you can't be assured that he's
43:03
Speaker 1: gonna take the next step. So for me, there's a
43:07
Speaker 1: lot of intrigue, you know, especially with a new offense,
43:10
Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator in a year in which you've
43:13
Speaker 1: had so many things that were different and restricted in
43:16
Speaker 1: the off season, and so you didn't and we're able
43:19
Speaker 1: to rep this new offense and O t A s
43:22
Speaker 1: and mini camps or anything else. So it uh to
43:26
Speaker 1: me it's gonna be very interesting to see where they
43:29
Speaker 1: are at. Yeah, quite a matchup early this year too.
43:36
Speaker 1: And you know Tony today, another change in the running
43:40
Speaker 1: back room. Zigbo's gone on i R. They bring another
43:43
Speaker 1: guy in off the street last second. So that position
43:47
Speaker 1: group has been a revolving door the last week or so. Especially.
43:51
Speaker 1: That's not ideal. No, we got Rock Armstead on the
43:54
Speaker 1: COVID list and it sounds like he's not gonna be
43:56
Speaker 1: back for a while. Um JP, I like you this,
44:00
Speaker 1: say who the new running backs they signed? You give
44:02
Speaker 1: us his name please. I'd like, uh played this game earlier,
44:06
Speaker 1: Dara ogun you but you didn't quite get it. Tony
44:17
Speaker 1: your turn ole um he uh listen, Like I hope
44:25
Speaker 1: Robinson is good, and I hope Chris Thompson, you know,
44:29
Speaker 1: is the scap back that they want him to be,
44:31
Speaker 1: because they put a lot of eggs in those baskets
44:33
Speaker 1: in that basket. And I go back to I'm of
44:36
Speaker 1: the belief they knew from January that they were going
44:39
Speaker 1: to find a way to get you know, try to
44:41
Speaker 1: trade Leonard Fournette. He was not in their plans moving forward.
44:45
Speaker 1: And because of that, I'm shocked that they did not
44:47
Speaker 1: do more to address the running back room. And I
44:50
Speaker 1: think now we're seeing, you know, this is a thing group,
44:53
Speaker 1: and you're counting on an undrafted rookie free agent to
44:56
Speaker 1: be your bell cow um more than you know really,
45:00
Speaker 1: and Chris Thompson, who's the third down scap back, who
45:02
Speaker 1: has more receiving yards and rusting yards in his career,
45:05
Speaker 1: is going to be, you know, your third down back.
45:08
Speaker 1: Not a lot of debt um, not a lot of
45:11
Speaker 1: room for air. And I hope Dave and Douga right
45:13
Speaker 1: um as they kind of put this this room together.
45:16
Speaker 1: I know they liked the room. I like that. I
45:18
Speaker 1: know they like the attitude in the room. But Jeff,
45:21
Speaker 1: I'm still shocked at knowing how I feel, at least
45:24
Speaker 1: how I think they felt about Leonard for net for
45:25
Speaker 1: a long time, that they didn't do more to put
45:29
Speaker 1: some bodies in there. Yeah, I think a little bit
45:32
Speaker 1: of the unexpected happened with with rock Armstead and then
45:36
Speaker 1: a zig bow with the hamstring. But the good thing
45:38
Speaker 1: is is that I think both of those guys are
45:40
Speaker 1: gonna be able to return at some point. And then
45:43
Speaker 1: with the rule changes, you also have Cotrell who was
45:48
Speaker 1: an undrafted running back Nathan Contrell on the practice squad,
45:52
Speaker 1: and so I think you're gonna have the ability to
45:54
Speaker 1: maybe elevate him up this week because O Goo bo
45:58
Speaker 1: a is gonna be so fresh and raw to the system.
46:01
Speaker 1: How much can he actually understand and no to contribute
46:05
Speaker 1: to a game plan? So uh, kind of this is
46:08
Speaker 1: gonna be an interesting year. And I mentioned earlier Tony,
46:11
Speaker 1: I don't know if you happen to hear it about
46:12
Speaker 1: the rules are different for the practice squad and how
46:16
Speaker 1: will that relate to to an issue like you have
46:20
Speaker 1: now running back to where Okay, you need some somebody,
46:22
Speaker 1: you know, So could Cantrell come up without having to
46:26
Speaker 1: subtract somebody from the fifty three man roster. The rules
46:30
Speaker 1: are different for that this year, and if teams now
46:32
Speaker 1: have greater flexibility, so I would expect that that could
46:36
Speaker 1: be a possibility. Uh. But then again, maybe o goombal
46:40
Speaker 1: A has some familiarity with J. Gruden system from somewhere somehow,
46:44
Speaker 1: and he can hit the ground and run and be running.
46:48
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting, it's gonna be it's gonna be
46:50
Speaker 1: a group that I think, um outside of Robinson really
46:54
Speaker 1: just being a stud, and maybe it is. I mean,
46:56
Speaker 1: maybe he's you know, it's happened before in this league
46:58
Speaker 1: where a seventh rounder or undraped two guy comes out
47:01
Speaker 1: of nowhere. I mean just two years ago, Philip Lindsay
47:04
Speaker 1: undrafted guy from Colorado State or next to the University
47:07
Speaker 1: of Colorado for the Broncos had a thousand plus yard
47:11
Speaker 1: rookie year. It was just dynamic and great. And maybe
47:13
Speaker 1: Robinson is that guy, let's hope. So but outside of that,
47:17
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see a bunch of bodies back there.
47:18
Speaker 1: And I agree with Jeff. You can see guys coming
47:21
Speaker 1: up and down from the practice squad until they really
47:22
Speaker 1: figure out, um, what they're gonna do, what they're gonna
47:25
Speaker 1: do with that position, or how they're gonna handle that.
47:27
Speaker 1: And it's such a far cry from where they were
47:30
Speaker 1: the last two years. I mean, think about this offense
47:32
Speaker 1: was designed to be built around letter for net. Um,
47:35
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a run first, pound the ball, physical team,
47:39
Speaker 1: um uh. And that's how you wanted to play. And
47:41
Speaker 1: now they've traded we're actually cut Leonard for Nette. They're
47:44
Speaker 1: going with the young quarterback and they really i mean
47:47
Speaker 1: running backs that fit the style that he wants to
47:49
Speaker 1: play in and that's out of the shop and a
47:52
Speaker 1: lot of inside outside zone and you know, quick throws,
47:55
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47:58
Speaker 1: it's a hundred eighty degree turn for where they were
48:00
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48:03
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48:07
Speaker 1: handling the person personnel in that running back room. Something
48:13
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48:16
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48:19
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Speaker 1: Branch to the second Jaguars quarterback and team captain. Welcome back, Jaguars,
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Speaker 1: all the info. The Jaguars announced guys eight captains, three
53:29
Speaker 1: on offense, Menshew Lender and Cony, four on defense, Alan Miles,
53:34
Speaker 1: Jack Abery Jones, Jared Wilson, and on special teams the
53:38
Speaker 1: kicker Josh Lambeau. Um is that me? Or is that
53:42
Speaker 1: a lot of captains, Tony? That's a lot of captain
53:48
Speaker 1: of your cent of your roster the captain, Um, I
53:52
Speaker 1: mean not that what you know. I looked at other teams,
53:55
Speaker 1: like I've seen most of them. I have four captains.
53:58
Speaker 1: I remember Jeff when we played I think it was
53:59
Speaker 1: three captains. Um. That was different. Tom named the captains
54:03
Speaker 1: each game. Um, but eight, I was like, Wow, that's
54:07
Speaker 1: a lot, Um. So whatever the reason he is, I
54:11
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. Uh. And the role of
54:14
Speaker 1: a captain is different, and you know, depending on the
54:16
Speaker 1: team in the culture in the locker room. UM, for instance, like,
54:20
Speaker 1: we never voted for captains. When Jeff and I played,
54:24
Speaker 1: Tom named him each game, and like, but you know
54:27
Speaker 1: who the leaders were. It was very obvious who the
54:29
Speaker 1: leaders in the locker room were, UM, and then the
54:32
Speaker 1: other teams. And nowadays they vote for captains, which I
54:34
Speaker 1: think is great. By the way, I get. I agree
54:36
Speaker 1: with Gardner what he said. It's quite an honor. I
54:38
Speaker 1: guess I was just a little bit surprised that we
54:40
Speaker 1: have so many but more the merrier, I mean, with
54:46
Speaker 1: the distancing, they might not all be able to go
54:48
Speaker 1: to the coin toss anyway, right, Yeah, to be very crowded. Well,
54:56
Speaker 1: it will make for an interesting coin toss. I can
54:58
Speaker 1: tell you that you got that right before we go
55:02
Speaker 1: on to a Thursday night thinking the game tonight. We
55:05
Speaker 1: we earlier before you jumped on here, Tony. We're talking
55:07
Speaker 1: about the Colts offensive line. And they played every game
55:12
Speaker 1: last year, all five positions, super consistent. They were a
55:16
Speaker 1: top ten rushing attack last year. There most of them
55:20
Speaker 1: have big contracts, by the way, now, they just paid
55:22
Speaker 1: the center recently. How good is this group compared to others?
55:25
Speaker 1: In the league. Oh, I'll just go by what we
55:28
Speaker 1: saw last year. Obviously, I haven't seen what they're gonna
55:30
Speaker 1: do this year. But they're very good. UM top ten
55:32
Speaker 1: rushing attack top ten and sacks allowed. UM. They were
55:35
Speaker 1: the strength of the offensive line. And I think they're
55:37
Speaker 1: a very dangerous team because that they can protect and
55:40
Speaker 1: if you give Philip Rivers a bunch of time, which
55:42
Speaker 1: he hasn't experienced in a long time because behind that
55:44
Speaker 1: sieve of an offensive line and uh in Los Angeles
55:48
Speaker 1: said he had to play behind Um, he's fighting for
55:50
Speaker 1: his life. Uh, He's gonna be dangerous because he's gonna
55:53
Speaker 1: get them in the right play, in the right situation,
55:55
Speaker 1: and if he has time, he's gonna find the open receiver.
55:58
Speaker 1: So I think the culture very good, and I think
56:00
Speaker 1: it does start up front with their offensive line. And
56:02
Speaker 1: they got Marlon back back there, who's an effective back
56:04
Speaker 1: as well. And they got Taylor, the rookiet of Wisconsin,
56:07
Speaker 1: who you know, rushed for like six million trillion yards
56:11
Speaker 1: in college and rewards at a campus. He's pretty good. Yeah, yeah,
56:19
Speaker 1: I mean, holy cow, he's a great he's a great back.
56:21
Speaker 1: You know, we haven't even talked much about the additions
56:24
Speaker 1: that the Colts have to their defense. They gave up
56:27
Speaker 1: a first round pick to acquire the Forced Buckner, who
56:31
Speaker 1: is essentially like a Kliss Campbell that can play and
56:35
Speaker 1: he can play a free technique. He can he can
56:38
Speaker 1: pass rush, and he can stop the run. He's a
56:40
Speaker 1: great football player. And then nix Xavier Rhodes at the
56:43
Speaker 1: corner spot, who's a big, physical corner. It wasn't very
56:47
Speaker 1: good last come back and even more healthy. Yeah, I know,
56:50
Speaker 1: I know, but he's in his past. He's been been
56:53
Speaker 1: pretty good in past. So I think it's gonna be,
56:56
Speaker 1: you know, a better Colts defense and certain league with
57:02
Speaker 1: another year under their belt for some of those young
57:04
Speaker 1: players that they've had, because you know, a couple of
57:06
Speaker 1: years ago they committed the youth and so some of
57:08
Speaker 1: those guys you know, and and one of them that's
57:10
Speaker 1: obviously is the best of Darius Leonard. I mean, he
57:13
Speaker 1: we don't even have to talk about him coming into
57:14
Speaker 1: his own The day he stepped foot on an NFL field,
57:18
Speaker 1: he was an impactful player and he's only going to
57:20
Speaker 1: get better, no doubt about that. Now, time to pick
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Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football. It's the season opener in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League. It's a battle of the two highest paid
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in league history. Patrick Mahomes and the defending Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs entertained to Shaun Watson and
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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. Kickoff time at eight twenty and Arrowhead
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Speaker 1: seventeen thousand expected in attendance. Oh, you got tonight in
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Speaker 1: the season opener on kickoff weekend, Tony. I got the
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Speaker 1: team all the way. They got the best quarterback in
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Speaker 1: the league. I think probably one of the best coach
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Speaker 1: teams in NFL. UM. They're good at every position group.
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Speaker 1: On the offensive side of the all they got Chris
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Speaker 1: Jones back is the defensive lineman who's very disruptive. I
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Speaker 1: think they're really good and I have I think I
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Speaker 1: think the Texans or a question mark. I actually have
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Speaker 1: them as the third best team in the NFC South. UM.
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Speaker 1: I don't think they're great on defense. UM, and offensively,
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Speaker 1: you know, with no DeAndre Hopkins, I'm interested in how
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Speaker 1: they run that offense because he was a safety outlet.
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Speaker 1: He was a safety blanket, to pacifier, whatever you wanna
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Speaker 1: call whatever. Deshaun Watson was in trouble, he'd find me.
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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. So I think Deshaun Watson is an outstanding
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Speaker 1: player and because of that, the Texans got a chance.
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Speaker 1: But I think the Chiefs win by ten points. Interesting.
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Speaker 1: It will be very interesting to see how Deshaun Watson takes,
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Speaker 1: you know, where his game goes without DeAndre Hopkins. A
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Speaker 1: lot of times quarterbacks get better without the guy that
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Speaker 1: they feel like that they have to throw it to
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Speaker 1: and then they just allow the offense to dictate where
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Speaker 1: the ball goes. So could that be the case with
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I don't know, but I mean, for me,
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is such a marvelous player. They've got so
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Speaker 1: much speed with at Kansas City offense. They've got a
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Speaker 1: very good offensive line, one of the better offensive lines
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Speaker 1: in the league, and they're at home. I don't see
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Speaker 1: them losing. Tonight should be a good one. The Texans
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Speaker 1: and the Chiefs kick off the season coming up tonight, Tony,
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Speaker 1: we will talk to you Sunday on the Public's tailgate
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Speaker 1: show It see you boys, all right, Tony Vaselli, out
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Speaker 1: of here. Head coach Doug Barone is coming up. Jeff
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Speaker 1: Loguman and I will stick around the Doug bron Show.
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